Author: Dara Kay Cohen

Dara Kay Cohen is an assistant professor of public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Her book “Rape During Civil War” is forthcoming from Cornell University Press in 2016.

Governments Don’t Outsource Atrocities to Militias. Here’s What Really Happens

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Refugees are fleeing Syria in such astonishing numbers because armed groups continue to target civilians with violence. That’s what we heard in September when the U.N. Human Rights Council discussed the most recent report of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria. The commission’s chair, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, made a plea for international action to end… Read more »